Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 1981165

SMITH DOT LLC

THURMAN, OH 94

Safety

Roadside out-of-service rates versus the national benchmark, inspection and crash trends, decoded violation themes, and ELD / hours-of-service integrity — the full safety picture behind the verdict.

Out-of-service rate· 24-mo cumulative · vs national

Vehicle OOS 18.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 11 vehicle and 21 driver inspections over 24 months.

Vehicle OOS rate· vehicle OOS · vehicle-level inspections · 6-month trailing

20.0% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 16.3 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

Inspection coverage· expected vs observed · the fraud signal

Inspection coverage

How heavily FMCSA inspects this fleet for its size — it tells you how much to trust the safety signals above. Thin coverage on a young authority is a fraud signal nobody else surfaces.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 14-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
14
Inspections · 24 mo
21
Annualized
≈11 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

78%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
53%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
31%
Vehicle Maintenance
Vektor peer est.

Percentile = standing among same-exposure peers (higher = worse). FMCSA publishes percentiles for only some carriers (shown official); elsewhere we show a Vektor peer-percentile estimate, or the absolute SMS measure when there are too few inspections to rank.

Violation themes· decoded · grouped by BASIC

What this carrier actually gets cited for — FMCSA violation codes decoded into plain English, ranked by frequency.

  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving19
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance4
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving1
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance1
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance1
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent 01/14/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
0Drove over hours

Crash history· 19 total · 2 in 24 mo

19
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20242011
20231001
20212012
20201011
20193003
20182002
20172002
20152002
20131011
20112012
20101011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
10/03/2024OH01No
09/19/2024WV00Yes
03/15/2023TX00Yes
07/26/2021OH00Yes
06/21/2021KY02Yes
11/05/2020OH01Yes
09/25/2019IL00Yes
09/10/2019OH00Yes
07/09/2019OH00Yes
09/14/2018WV00Yes
03/11/2018WV00Yes
08/16/2017OH00Yes
03/27/2017OH00Yes
06/25/2015IL00Yes
06/25/2015OH00Yes
08/14/2013WV02Yes
09/07/2011PA00Yes
05/31/2011WV01Yes
05/03/2010PA01Yes